In a world where ‘witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people’ (Booklist), it takes a very unusual female to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is definitely an automobile mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night time, she explores her preternatural part. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s discovered herself preserving a tenuous harmony between the human being as well as the not-so-human on several occasion. This time around she may get a lot more than she bargained for.